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Dennison, OH

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Overview


Dennison is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,669 people and just one neighborhood, Dennison is the 402nd largest community in Ohio. Dennison has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dennison is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.86% of the Dennison workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dennison is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dennison who work in office and administrative support (10.37%), healthcare suport services (9.68%), and healthcare (8.04%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Dennison is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Dennison is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Dennison, just 9.26% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Dennison in 2018 was $21,778, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,112 for a family of four. However, Dennison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dennison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dennison residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dennison include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Dennison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Dennison, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dennison are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 32.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (14.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Dennison, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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